Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Vietnam and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978 at the first Visage practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Ossler to the grunge kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Ponytail. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Derrick May record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rotary Connection,
Supertramp,
Whodini,
John Coltrane,
Sugar Minott,
The Vogues,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Faust,
Country Teasers,
Crime,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun City Girls,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Patti Smith,
Quantec,
The New Christs,
Roxy Music,
The Fugs,
Laurel Aitken,
The Raincoats,
Scion,
Crispian St. Peters,
Chris Corsano,
Dark Day,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Grey Daturas,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Misunderstood,
Scientists,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Easy Going,
Wire,
Arab on Radar,
David Bowie,
Byron Stingily,
The Wake,
Bobby Sherman,
Niagra,
The Seeds,
Toni Rubio,
Vladislav Delay,
John Holt,
Neil Young,
Y Pants,
Rakim,
the Sonics,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
U.S. Maple,
Marc Almond,
Jerry's Kids,
Crispy Ambulance,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Barbara Tucker,
The Searchers,
Oneida,
Parry Music,
The Monochrome Set,
Kevin Saunderson,
Porter Ricks,
The Durutti Column,
Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin, Kenny Larkin.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.